World & Nation
The First Lady hopes her new project will be one for the books.
March 7, 1989
Olympics
Manfred Ewald, who as head of the state sports program in the former East Germany oversaw one of the most despicable, large-scale doping experiments ever conducted in the name of Olympic glory and national pride, has died.
Oct. 24, 2002
Food
Basic Training “The New Making of a Cook,” by Madeline Kamman (William Morrow, $40) The new revision of “Joy of Cooking,” by Irma S.
Dec. 3, 1997
Books
Six million softcovers ago, Judith Krantz’s first paperback publisher had scruples about the title of her new romance.
Jan. 7, 1992
California
A person arrested for drunk driving must submit to one test for blood-alcohol level but cannot be legally forced to submit to a second kind of test just because police decide the second test might make for better evidence in court, a state appeal court in San Diego ruled Monday.
April 9, 1991
A former PTA president from Reseda charged with murdering a 9-month-old boy placed in her care was acquitted Thursday in Van Nuys Superior Court.
July 29, 1994
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state’s tough law that hobbled collective bargaining rights for most public employees, a decision that buoys the reelection campaign of Gov.
July 31, 2014
Debra Suzanne Cummings, a former PTA president from Reseda charged with murdering a 9-month-old boy placed in her care in 1990, was found not guilty Thursday.
Unsolicited praise from a convicted cop-killer isn’t the kind of endorsement a judge with a tough law enforcement stance wants.
Feb. 15, 2009
Politics
Liberal justices flex their power as the new majority on the state’s top court, firing the director of the court system.
Aug. 3, 2023